WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -During the Cold War Soviet forces crushed the nationwide revolt, leading to the death of an estimated 2, 500 Hungarian citizens. The multi-national Communist armed forces’ sole joint action was the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, another Warsaw Pact member state, in August 1968.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955 and represented a Soviet counterweight to NATO, composed of the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Warsaw Pact was a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania (Albania withdrew in 1968).

Detailed explanation-4: -There was a fear that the USSR would attack a Western European country to spread communism. Communist countries were established in China and North Korea. The formation of NATO meant that the USA could place weapons in member states to stop the communists from attacking.